ABOKIGIjSTAL AMERICAN BASKETRY. 479 



No. 5, described on another plate. 



No. 6. diameter. 7^ inches: depth. tU inches; stitches, 11»; color, 

 cream, red. and hiack: a very tine squaw cap. 



No. 7, diameter. .S inches; depth, <! inches; stitches, 17; color, 

 cream, })lack, and brown. 



No. 8, diameter, 1,5^ inches; depth. lU inches; stitches, 14: color, 

 cream, red. and an unusual amount of }>lack. This design with some 

 is the tail of the rattlesnake and with others the arrowhead. Jhe 

 administration of radial patterns is a strikino- feature in this plate. 

 The forms of the i-adii. but chiefly the varied markings on them, are 

 most effective. 



No. 9, described on another plate. 



No. 10, diameter. 11^ inches: depth. U inches; stitches, 22; color, 

 l)lack. brown, and cream, with yellow-hammer quills; a very odd 

 shape and good pattern. 



No. 11, diameter. 1.5 inches; depth, 11 inches; stitches, 1.5; color, rich 

 red, ])rown, black, and cream. A very striking example and unusual 

 for so much dark color. 



Plate 193 is a tine coiled ])asket of the Kern County Indians, who 

 belong to the Shoshonean family. It was made in Canebrake Canyon 

 by the last old basket maker of the tribe, who was swept away in a 

 flood in August, lltol. The decorative patterns are ideal. Nine ver- 

 tical stripes in black and red, with stepped borders and diamond figures 

 on the interior, rise from the plain bottom and extend to the lower 

 edge of the rim. The latter has its own fine-checkered, sloping 

 designs, with no relation to the decoration on the l)ody. Circumfer- 

 ence, 29 inches: diameter, 9 inches: height, 5 inches; stitches to the 

 inch. 32; colors, red. black, and cream. A design of quail plumes is 

 shown on the border. 



Plate 194 is a coiled bottle neck from Cane Brake Canyon, Kern 

 River, Kern Count}'. Diameter, 9 inches: height, ♦! inches: stitches 

 to the inch, 24; color, cream, black, and brown. This and Plate 193 

 were both made by the same squaw, who was supposed to be about 85 

 years of age, and was the last really good weaver in Kern County. 

 The ornamentation on this basket consists in a band of dentate figures 

 on the bottom and three bands of crenelated ornament on the body 

 and top. The dentate figures also occur on the outer projection of the 

 crenelles on the body. Dr. Merriam has found this pattern symboliz- 

 ing the spasmodic flight of a butterfly. Below the border of the lower 

 band are rhombs in pairs, and there are five checker oblique patterns 

 about the rim. 



Plate 195, McLeod collection, is a Kern County basket from Paiute 

 Mountain, called by him the apostolic basket, from the human figures 

 on the top. Diameter. 15 inches: height, 12 inches: stitches to the 

 inch, 28; colors, red, brown, black, and cream. The owner speaks of 



